DAYLIGHT SAVING.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19251, 5 March 1928, Page 10

DAYLIGHT SAVING.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. Sir,—A meeting of a golf club in Christchurch decided the other day to send congratulatory messages to Mr Sidey for introducing Daylight Saving. Now, Sir, of all. people, the least consideration should be shown to the golf club, no doubt an excellent body of ladies and gentlemen, but happy people who rise when the inclination tends that way, and play their game of golf likewise. The other issue, the urgent need of production, is totally opposite. I say with all fairness to both parties that this Daylight Saving is absolutely a failure in every walk of farm life. It is a proven fact that the present way of working is not a success—especially in shearing, harvest, milking, and home life in the country. The question is: Which is most important, to have the country's resources cared for, the harvest safely stored for the townspeople, and have the butter and wool carefully worked, the children in a fit state for their school duties (some travelling as far as five miles)., or, on the other side, to play their game of golf, and in general allow the office girl and the youth to be relieved c! their duties one hour earlier, to prevent country patrons from sometimes doing a bit of shopping in the late afternoon before catching a train that leaves when the sun is shining brightly, on our one day in the Garden City, or to have the country's revenue kept on a safe balance? It is not a case of town versus country, since both are an absolute necessity to each other, but that of the country's prosperity.—Yours, etc., , . PHCEBE. Cheviot, March 3rd. TO THE EDITOR OP THE PRESS. Sir,—T. H. Wilkinson's letter of yesterday (Saturday) was quite a "refresher." Those were just my sentiments. Now we are keeping the right time one hour in the morning is worth two at night. I wonder how many there are who have the "Kruschen feeling'' of having regained the "hour" lost four months ago? The trouble is we don't all think alike.—Yours, etc., ONE OF THE ANTIS. March 4tli, 1928.